Re: VARCHAR2 storage on a page

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:45:16 -0600
Message-ID: <whPC8.2$_D5.11298@news.uswest.net>

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:3cdb7bdb$0$231$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
>
> > I'm not a SQL Server defender but for that matter, I try not to
defend
> > any RDBMS. Like the vendor cares about me? Perish that thought!
> > What I believe is that with sufficient smarts, we as an
engineering
> > group, can run any RDBMS and make it perform well. Right?
>
> Certainly ought to be able to. It does take a lot of know-how
though.
>

It does to a degree but once you have the fundamentals of how an RDBMS works, it's relatively (to the first) to pick up another one, then the third becomes easier and so on.

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Received on Fri May 10 2002 - 07:45:16 CDT